Abstract:
At present, women headed families are being increased in the third world
country due to the war and it is becoming an important social problem. Women are
mostly affected and victimized through the war in these countries. We have to analyze
the socio-economic problems faced by women headed families to promote our regional
economic development in the post war period of Sri Lanka. The phenomenon of
development has emerged as multifaceted and multifarious paradigms. The concepts of
Gender and development, development in gender and gender in development have
emerged an importance concept in the socio-economic field after the Second World
War period. This study attempts to bring out the socio-economic problems of the
women headed families of karainagar resettled from wanni welfare center in the post
war period.
This study has adopted social anthropological research methods. 584 families
have resettled by the government but 92 families are women headed families. As the
perceptions on women made through the cultural ideology, the women have to face
many social problems regarding their economic activities. In this context, we must
study the problems of resettled women headed families and women should be so as to
encourage the participating in their livelihood activities.
In this research, Secondary data is collected from the records of assistant
government agent office and Grama sevar office, while the primary date is collected
through the interview, case study and questionnaire. Questionnaire will be issued 30
percentages of families on the selected on sampling basis.
Through this study we attempt to suggest the program of action to minimize
the economic problems faced by women headed families.
